Question

I have a problem with a MVC 3 Application…
If I have a link like this:

http://localhost:15838/ByBU/OpenTask/Details/Excess_Casualty/Index_Clear

and the route for this url is:

routes.MapRoute(
            "OpenTaskDetails",
            "{controller}/OpenTask/{action}/{BU}/{SLAName}",
            new { controller = "ByBU", action= "Details", BU = "BU", SLAName = "SLAName" },
            new [] { "SLA.Controllers" }
            );

When I set a breakpoint at the first line of “Details” action the variables BU and SLAName are: Excess (instead of Excess_Casualty), and Index (instead of Index_Clear).

It worked fine before, and then all of a sudden stopped working and I have no clue why it does that. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Underscores are never recommended for URLs, so you may want to switch to dashes :

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/dashes-vs-underscores/

“Google sees the dash as a word separator, while the underscore is perceived to be part of the word.”